Q-04
Inequalities and Institutional Change in East Asian Capitalisms

Moderator:
Bruno Palier
Session Organizers:
Byung You Cheon , Jin-Wook Shin and Sophia Seung-yoon Lee
Friday, June 24, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
254 Dwinelle (Dwinelle Hall)

Asian Capitalism is increasingly gaining attention from multidiscipline and from different regions for its implication on sociological and political theories of Capitalism. The proposed sessions attempt to specifically focus on Welfare, Inequalities, and Institutional Change in East Asia. First session will focus on Asian Capitalism with a comparative perspective and examines the characteristics of welfare institutions. Second session focuses on Politics of Inequality and Social Movements in East Asia. Two sessions composes with papers on - Increasing inequalities in income, assets, employment, etc.; Responses in party politics, social policy, and social movements; Importance of the changes in the East Asian region.

Specific Topics of this session includes East Asian labor market, in equalities in income, education, assets, etc., party politics, social movements, transformation of the East Asian developmental state.

Fair Income and Redistribution :As the Case of Japan
Sayaka Sakoda, Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS
Varieties in Gendered Dualism in East Asian Labor Markets
Sophia Seung-yoon Lee, Ewha Womans University; Jiyeun Chang, Korea Labor Institute; Ito Peng, University of Toronto
Recent Trends in Social Stratification and Inequality in China
Chunling Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Korea
Jun Ho Jeong, Kangwon National University; Byung You Cheon, Hanshin University; Seeun Jeong, Chungnam National University
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